NSF Grant on Khoisan Languages

Abstract Title: Developing the next generation of researchers investigating the

Khoisan languages (BCS-1760980)

Institution: New York University

Abstract Date: 03/14/2018

Summary of Research 2017-2018

The writing season is coming up. I need to plan out what I will work on this summer.

Proposal for Volume on Smuggling

Proposal for Volume on Smuggling

Editors:            Adriana Belletti, Chris Collins

Publisher:        Oxford University Press

Teaching Statement (December 2017) (abridged)

Here is an abridged version of my teaching statement. The only section that has been modified is the advising section, where I removed the names and work of particular students.

Syllabus: The Khoisan Languages

Here is the syllabus for the seminar (graduate, advanced undergraduate) that I am teaching this semester (Spring 2018). I also pasted it below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ag9brtte0sbnwrv/The%20Khoisan%20Languages%20%28Syllabus%29.pdf?dl=0

I also post the syllabus for the same seminar that I taught in 1999. You can see how much
the field has grown, and how much I have learned, since then.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mouyb9gbur964tz/Collins%201999%20%28Syllabus%20Syntax%20of%20Khoisan%20Languages%29.pdf?dl=0

Scalar Modification of Quantifier Phrases

In this paper, I give an analysis of the syntax and semantics of expressions like almost everybody, absolutely everybody and nowhere near everybody. I show how the interpretation of such expressions involves reference to scales of generalized quantifiers in the sense of Horn 2001.

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003682

Busy Hands

Adopted from Facebook post Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:19am EST